Section: News & Summaries

Lawmakers have approved at second attempt amendments to the legislation on changing the system of registration of medicines in Ukraine. A total of 230 MPs voted for the law introducing amendments to the law of Ukraine on medicines regarding the circulation and state control over the quality of medicines imported into the customs territory of...

Maidan Community Sector, Lviv: Dear friends! War, not the expected peace arrived at the doorstep of Great Britain and France when they gave up Czechoslovakia to Hitler in 1938. War is happening right here at home and not in faraway Europe – the United States were harshly reminded about this at Pearl Harbor in 1942. War descended on Ukraine and...

The Ukrainian government has approved a plan of short- and medium-term measures to reduce the consumption of natural gas by heating companies, industrial consumers, public institutions, organizations and the public. The government portal reported this, citing the press service of the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation....

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk arrives in the Verkhovna Rada. Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov announced repeated registration of deputies – 240. They finally gathered a forum. To remind, in the morning 223 people’s deputies registered for the Verkhovna Rada session. The necessary number of votes for adoption of a decision is...

Russian army losses in Donbas fighting have reached 4,360 servicemen. Such statistics on 11 military units were released by Russian human rights activist and founder of the Web project “Cargo 200 from Ukraine to Russia,” Elena Vasilyeva. “The figures are approximate, because there is no accounting of troops in that...

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov assured people’s deputies that an extraordinary meeting of the parliament will be held under a close guard of law enforcers, therefore, people’s deputies should not be afraid to come for the meeting. He said this, opening the extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada Monday, a Ukrinform...

Russian-terrorist forces pull band groups and technology to Debaltseve. Head of the Information Resistance group Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on Facebook. “Russian-terrorist forces continue accumulation of forces near Debaltseve. On the line of Horlivka and Nikishyne, the number of band formations exceeded 3,000 persons, up to 2/3 of armored...

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is planning to hold a press conference in Rostov-on-Don on Monday. It was learned from Yanukovych’s entourage that the runaway “guarantor” intends to urge residents of southeastern regions in Ukraine, who at one time voted for the Party of Regions, to support the Opposition Bloc in...

Law enforcers took the Verkhovna Rada building under heavy guard on Monday. It is reported by a Ukrinform correspondent. Security officials stand around the perimeter of the parliament in three rows with shields and helmets. A square in front of the parliament is currently free of protesters.

No agreements on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine have been reached in Milan. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this in a program aired by the 1+1 television channel, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “There are currently no agreements with Russia on gas. There is no contract signed, so there is no agreement,” he said....